Kate Bush has the creators of the series Stranger Things thanks for using her number Running Up That Hill† Thanks to the fourth season of the Netflix series, the 1985 song is now number one on the UK chart.
“I’m overwhelmed by all the love and attention the song is getting and it’s all happening so quickly. Like it’s driven by an elemental force,” Bush writes on her website about the number 1 hit she released 37 years after the song. the release of the record scores.
“I must admit I was very touched by it. Thank you so much for making the song a number 1 hit in such an unexpected way.”
The singer also hands out compliments to the makers of Stranger Thingsdie Running Up That Hill according to her “in a positive light”. She also thinks it’s brave that Matt and Ross Duffer have dared to go for a more mature and dark fourth season.
Running Up That Hill did not reach the top of the charts in 1985, but has now become so in the United Kingdom. With that, Bush also breaks three records: she is the oldest woman ever to have a number 1 hit, she delivered the number 1 hit that took the longest to conquer the top position and she is the artist with the longest gap between two number 1 -hits. She debuted in 1978 at number one with Wuthering Heights.
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